OS Daily Thread - Thursday 21st January 2010

nmlc · 21 January 2010 at 9:03AM

Morning all

Dark and cold here this morning but no snow.

Forgot to get the meat out of the freezer for last night's dinner so swapped menu around and we had the smoked sausage pasta and tonight we are having chicken escalopes for OH, DS1 and DS2 and I'm having fish pie with veg.

Have quite a busy day planned will be loading the boot of the car up with all the empty bottles and glass jars as the bottle bank in our village has been taken away (someone complained the local pub was using it to get rid of their empties but doing it after closing so was very noisy! - so all us normal folk now have to go elsewhere!). There's one in the next village and I'm going to hairdressers near there this morning - so able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone as they say! Am cross with myself as left the kitchen in a right mess last night and hadn't made the pack-ups either so had to get up this morning, clean the kitchen and do pack-ups before I could start on breakfast etc - will be trying not to do that again!

On a better note went to the scales yesterday and have lost 1lb which is the last 1lb I put on over Xmas, New Year and my birthday - so am now back to pre-Xmas and birthday weight - I'm so chuffed - now onwards and upwards!! so back to total weight loss of 2 stone 10lb.

Want to get all the normal jobs done today and possibly visit to Netto in the next town. Also quite a list of cooking/baking to do - that may get done today or tomorrow or Saturday as OH working Sat morning. Not much other OS to report.

Keep safe and well everyone, hugs to those that need them.
nmlc

thriftlady_2 · 21 January 2010 at 9:08AM

Morning everyone:wave:

Foggy here this morning.

Today I really must get my marmalade made. Think I'll dig out an audio book to listen to whilst cutting up the peel.

I'm also cooking a load of pulses for the freezer -chickpeas and black beans.

Must drain the mung beans I put to soak and start sprouting them.

Breakfast was bacon butties and fruit.

Lunchboxes have cheese & chutney sandwiches plus fruit and muffins. I'm letting the kids choose their own fruit and snacks. I think I'll make a batch of munchy seeds or some savoury popcorn so that they've got a bit more choice.
I shall have leftover salad with some feta cheese.

Supper will be blackbeans and brown basmati with lots of veggies -sweetcorn, roast peppers, avocado, onions etc.

Have a productive day;)

stefejb · 21 January 2010 at 9:10AM

Morning all - have been AWOL for a bit due to some family circumstances - poor dd(20) is being harrassed by an ex who won't take no for an answer despite her being happily settled and 8 months pregnant with someone else - it's now a criminal matter and we are waiting for a court date - just hoping that if it goes to Crown court it won't be mine as I'm a witness. She has had to leave her home and is on her MIL's sofa for the forseeable future

N9aev - how awful - it must be hard not to be affected by things like that.

tea tonight will be something that dd(13) is making in food tech - I can't remember what it is but know it involved some very expensive chicken breast

mrsmortenharket · 21 January 2010 at 9:15AM

Morning all!

Well, baby wouldn't settle last night so slept on the floor on a thin matress with him. Oh, my back today.... He seems ok today. It's only at night. His cot is propped up & I have a vapour thing plugged in his room, but he really wouldn't settle & was crying hard.

Have my flying to do today. Also want to clean my bathroom.

Have someone coming to see my pram today. Hope to sell is as I want another one. Hopefully she'll buy the bouncy chair as well!

Need to make a stew today for DH & baby. DS1 & DD will have a chicken dinner. I will have a tuna steak. It's like a cafe here!!! Must get tuna & chicken out of freezer when I've posted this.

Right, must get everyone ready to leave.

Have a good day all

(((hugs))) for those who need them

Lisa xxx

taplady · 21 January 2010 at 9:27AM

morning all!

2 days off!:j

we were supposed to go racing this afternoon as we had a free ticket to Ludlow races but its been abandoned due to snow:rolleyes: so not sure what we'll do now. DH is working this morning and I'm poppping to Mums to clean. WM is on, house tidy, need to clean kitchen floor later and do a little ironing. Not sure whats for tea yet.
DS2 has gont to college today but I've just noticed he's left a disc behind that he needed - hope it can wait as I dont reallt want to drive 20 miles to give it to him.

Diva - continued best wishes to Tris and Michelle - Pam too x

Stef - your poor DD, hope it gets sorted soon x x

Hester - good luck to your DH for his interview x

Lowesy (((Hugs)))

hope you all have a great day x

GemmaBuckle · 21 January 2010 at 9:43AM

Good morning everybody,

Lowesy – the biggest hug in the world for you.Take care of yourself.

I managed to track that unexpected money in my account. Apparently I had a big credit with my previous ‘phone / internet company so they transferred it to my account when I switched. I don’t really understand how I could have built up such a large amount, as I check my bills meticulously, but I’m not going to complain!

Went into the big cupboard in our garage this morning to get rabbit food. On my way in I noticed the huge pile of “stuff” on the floor in the garage. I opened the cupboard door to find it almost completely empty. No chance OH will sort this lot out (it’s mainly his toys. Saws and drills and stuff), so that’s another job to add to the list. Failed once again to clean the stairs last night as OH was really late home and I need him to distract Puppy-Dog whilst I do the stairs, otherwise he tries to help!

Last night’s lasagne wasn’t a huge success. I used those “no-need-to-pre-cook” lasagne sheets and they came out all chewy. I’ll definitely be pre-cooking next time. Dinner tonight will be good ol’ pasta bake, followed by cheesecake (Mmmmm…. Cheesecake). Lunch is leftover lasagne for me, and whatever OH made himself this morning whilst I was still lounging around in bed (shocking!).

Hugs and Good Vibes to everybody,

G

sistercas · 21 January 2010 at 9:52AM

popped back to say Nmlc well done on your weight loss you have done fabulously :T

Lowesy (((hugs)))

flutterbyuk25 · 21 January 2010 at 9:54AM

Morning all

Just a quick hello from me, I have day off and I'm off to Cardiff for the day shopping with 2 friends

It's one of my friends birthdays so we having lunch in GBK (using the coucher of course!)

Have good day all

x

tired_mum · 21 January 2010 at 10:11AM

Morning all
Hugs for Tris and his sister
Good luck to Mr Hester
Off in a min to take DS for his army carrers interview then will be home for a little bit and picking DD1 up from college and taking her to Lakeside
am going to try to do an online shop today
Tea is YS pizza
Have a good day

csarina · 21 January 2010 at 10:32AM

Morning all....................((((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))))))))) if you need one......

Late waking this morning, but not surprising as it was well after 2am before I got to sleep.

We have the new letting agent coming to look at the house ready to market it later this morning, so need to do a quick tidy round and clean the sitting room rug and kitchen floor.......

OG plans more work in the garage. Had a fit lst night when the movers rang to tell me how much the boxes were going to be.......£150, so I will be trying to sell them on when they are empty.

I lost it a bit last night, went to check my bank account on microsoft money and the whole b****y lot had disappeared.......I spent ages redoing the whole thing and transferred it to the external hard drive I had, only to discover that I already had most of it on there ggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The boxes should be with us tomorrow we are starting in my sewing room and doing a room a day apart from the kitchen which will be done a week on Sunday. The removers are packing the china and glass.

DS2 has said he is coming up for a couple of days towards the end of Feb, he is going to build us a log store and do various other little jobs, like plumb in the dishwasher.

Quick visit to Aldi later for some fruit.......we got an axe from Wilkinson the other day and OH found the old log splitter in the shed at the allotment, so that has saved me £15.

Supper tonight pizza and salad........banana with something for dessert.........

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